JOSEPH AND JESSE D. EVERHEART

(From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 914-915)
Transcribed by Kris Breid, 17 May 2005

JOSEPH AND JESSE D. EVERHEART, farmers. Joseph Everheart, the father of Jesse D., a venerable, old, post-octogenarian citizen of Callaway county, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, September 21, 1800, and was a son of Jacob and Ann (Waltman) Everheart, of that county.

The father died when Joseph was only four years old, so he did not have the care of a father in his bringing up. When a youth, he served an apprenticeship at the carpenter’s trade for three years, and paid his master $100 into the bargain for teaching him. He then took charge of the family farm, and when twenty-six years old was married to Miss Lydia Stuck, but she lived only a short time. She left him two children, Jacob and Elizabeth, both of whom are now deceased.

In 1831, he was married to Miss Anna Deaver, of Maryland, and four years afterwards he came to Missouri, buying the Wilburn farm of 240 acres, on which he has since lived. Mr. Everheart followed farming and fine stock raising here and became quite wealthy. He had 1,200 acres of fine land and sixteen head of likely negroes, besides other valuable property. He had the best brood mare in the county and a jack that he paid $1,000 for; had also fine cattle and sheep. The war, however, greatly crippled him, but still he is in comfortable circumstances.

His second wife died in 1859, leaving him nine children: Jesse D., mentioned hereafter; Margaret, wife of James Tureman, of Fulton; Martha, wife of William martin; Joseph, Ellen, wife of Doctor Thomas Maughas; William B., John, killed by a runaway team; Virginia, wife of a Mr. Porter, in Texas, and Susan, wife of James Woodland. In 1862, Mr. Everheart was married to Mrs. Lucinda Dyson, widow of William Dyson, deceased. Mrs. Everheart was first the wife of John H. Wren, by whom she had tow children. Then, after his death, she married Mr. Dyson, by whom she had eight children; but she has none by Mr. Everheart. She is a member of the Christian church. His religion is the Golden Rule

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Jesse D., his eldest son, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 11, 1835, and was therefore reared in this county. A Southerner, and his father a large slaveholder, he naturally went with the South when the war broke out. He first joined Captain R. M. Berry’s company in the State Guard, Confederate service, for its six months’ term, and during that time was in the battle of Lexington. He then enlisted in the regular Confederate service in Bledsoe’s celebrated battery, and was in that famous command until the close of the war. At Pea Ridge he was “graced” with a cannon ball, which tore his clothes off him and stunned him so badly that he was prostrated for six weeks from its effects; but on recovering, he went bravely on with his battery through the war all the same. He was in the Mississippi campaign with Hood at Nashville, and in the Georgia campaign, surrendering finally with General Joe Johnston at Augusta, Georgia. Returning home then, on the 18th of December, 1866, he was married to Miss Sallie J., a daughter of Nimrod and Susan (Maupin) Maupin, formerly of Albemarle county, Virginia. They came to Callaway county in 1853. Both are now deceased. Mr. And Mrs. E., have a family of three sons: Emmet D., Early Maupin and Merritt Woody. Mr. Everheart located on his present farm in 1868. He has 160 acres. His wife is a member of the M. E. church.

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